Ramelin’s Notrion, 8 miles per hex
In July 2017, Jose shared a few sets of maps to his DeviantArt gallery. One of these was a group of four maps revising his take on Bellissaria, which he had previously worked on earlier in the year. However, this map of Notrion seems to reverse some of the previous additions, suggesting that in fact it dates back to before the Bellissaria v2 map in March. The omissions are not large: no shipping lanes, no hills around Aaslin, and no rivers running south off the Winklemazes. Otherwise everything was about the same in Notrion.
Without further insight into Jose’s process, it’s hard to say why this map ended up like this. Given that he didn’t walk back any of these changes in his version 3 map in 2018, it seems most likely to have been a simple oversight, possibly due to working with multiple versions of maps. I can certainly sympathise with this: it is far from easy to juggle hundreds of different maps with multiple variants for each!
Fan-made Map by Jose Ignacio Ramos Lomelin (July 2017)
This is an original map created by one of Mystara’s excellent fan cartographers. For more information on the cartographer, including a gallery of all their maps, see also Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara.
Sources
- Dawn of the Emperors (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Fan Sources
- LoZompatore’s Notrion, 24 miles per hex (July 2006)
- LoZompatore’s Bellissaria, 24 miles per hex (July 2006)
- Ramelin’s Bellissaria, 8 miles per hex v2 (March 2017)
References
- All of Jose’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
- Jose’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
- Jose’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in July 2017. The updated Atlas version of this map is not yet available. See also Appendix C for annual chronological snapshots of the area. For the full context of this map in Mystara’s publication history, see the upcoming Let’s Map Mystara 2017.
The following lists are from the Let’s Map Mystara project. Additions are new features, introduced in this map. Revisions are changes to previously-introduced features. Hex Art & Fonts track design elements. Finally, Textual Additions are potential features found in the related text. In most cases, the Atlas adopts these textual additions into updated and chronological maps.
Under Construction! Please check back again soon for updates.
Additions
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Revisions
- Settlements —
Hex Art & Fonts
- Hex Art — Ramelin Mystara standard.
- Fonts — Bell MT (major geographic and all water labels), Bell Centennial (all other labels), Feinen (titling).
